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proselytize
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  • Every Saturday, there'd be a morning prayer meeting at the Atkins house in the Highland Dwellings public housing project that would adjourn to the streets, and Phillip and his father would go door to door proselytizing and passing out The Watch lower, hallmark ot the Jehovah's Witnesses.†   (source)
  • He was capable of maintaining companionable silences, indeed, often seemed to prefer them to talk, and he made light conversation at least as often as he proselytized.†   (source)
  • She was a much more persistent proselytizer than any prisoner I had known in Danbury.†   (source)
  • Pose as survey takers, bill collectors, insurance runners delivering checks, door-to-door proselytizers, whatever might be believable, but talk to the neighbors and learn what you can without being suspicious.†   (source)
  • In Pakistan, and other impoverished countries most affected by Wahhabi proselytizing, though, the name has stuck.†   (source)
  • Despite the proselytizing of the Mbekela brothers, my father remained aloof from Christianity and instead reserved his own faith for the great spirit of the Xhosas, Qamata, the God of his fathers.†   (source)
  • They don't proselytize; they don't stand in pulpits or on party platforms and tell us to fight for Peace or for God or whatever it is.†   (source)
  • A frail young man in a drip-dry suit slid into the seat across from them, introduced himself as Mike Fallopian, and began proselytizing for an organization known as the Peter Pinguid Society.†   (source)
  • She did not try to proselytize, only intimating to Sophie that for the suffering of her own imprisonment she would find ample reward in Jehovah's Kingdom.†   (source)
  • We proselytize to our friends and shake them by the shoulders and tell them, "Seize the day!†   (source)
  • But the Interior Minister saw it as proselytizing.†   (source)
  • Alas, Almaz was in a proselytizing mood.†   (source)
  • How can it be proselytizing when no one can read?†   (source)
  • Interestingly to Cole, few of his Muslim clients showed more than a passing interest in his curiosity about their faith, a reaction at odds with the aggressive proselytizing that characterized the conservative Christians Cole knew from growing up in Georgia.†   (source)
  • In December 2000, the Saudi publication Ain-Al-Yaqeen reported that one of the four major Wahhabi proselytizing organizations, the Al Haramain Foundation, had built "1,100 mosques, schools, and Islamic centers," in Pakistan and other Muslim countries, and employed three thousand paid proselytizers in the previous year.†   (source)
  • Our policy was to be friendly, to take an interest, to compliment them on their achievements, but not to proselytize.†   (source)
  • In December 2000, the Saudi publication Ain-Al-Yaqeen reported that one of the four major Wahhabi proselytizing organizations, the Al Haramain Foundation, had built "1,100 mosques, schools, and Islamic centers," in Pakistan and other Muslim countries, and employed three thousand paid proselytizers in the previous year.†   (source)
  • Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies.†   (source)
  • Nobody knows what Soviet Russia and its Communist international organization intends to do in the immediate future, or what are the limits, if any, to their expansive and proselytizing tendencies.†   (source)
  • For Perrault had come to preach and proselytize, whereas Henschell took a more immediate interest in the gold deposits.†   (source)
  • Well, yes—proselytizer, fisher of souls.†   (source)
  • [To Don Juan] And all your philosophizing has been nothing but a mask for proselytizing†   (source)
  • They were proselytizers for converts to their religion.†   (source)
  • But having fallen in love with him, she had become inoculated with the virus of Evangelism and proselytizing which dominated him, and had followed him gladly and enthusiastically in all of his ventures and through all of his vagaries.†   (source)
  • It was some five blocks from the spot on which twice a week the open air meetings of these religious enthusiasts and proselytizers were held.†   (source)
  • His parents in Kansas City, Denver, and before that Chicago and Grand Rapids, Michigan, appear to have been unordained ministers of the proselytizing and mission-conducting type—people who, from all I can gather, are really, sincerely religious and right-principled in every sense.†   (source)
  • There is no help for it; the faithful proselytizer, if she cannot convince by argument, bursts into tears, and the refusant finds himself, at the end of the contest, taking down the bolus, and saying, "Well, well, Rodgers' be it."†   (source)
  • It is remarkable that these performances, tolerated and encouraged, no doubt, in the convent out of a secret spirit of proselytism and in order to give these children a foretaste of the holy habit, were a genuine happiness and a real recreation for the scholars.†   (source)
  • Protestantism sat at ease, unmindful of schisms, careless of proselytism: Dissent was an inheritance along with a superior pew and a business connection; and Churchmanship only wondered contemptuously at Dissent as a foolish habit that clung greatly to families in the grocery and chandlering lines, though not incompatible with prosperous wholesale dealing.†   (source)
  • In his free time he travelled around and did proselytising for Nazism.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it proselytizing.
  • Pappa, I'm not going to proselytise.†   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it proselytize.
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